Weyl, Reichenbach and the epistemology of geometry

DOI10.1016/0039-3681(94)90066-3MaRDI QIDQ4852897zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors T. A. Ryckman

Publication date 22 August 1996

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0039-3681(94)90066-3

zbMATH Keywords

philosophy of sciencegeneral theory of relativityequivalent descriptions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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